Cairo – Mubasher: Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed today an agreement that defines a mechanism that will be applied in the coming period to end a dispute over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam.
The agreement was inked by foreign ministers of the three countries in Khartoum.
According to Egyptian state media, it was agreed that a French consulting firm would conduct research for a period between eight months and a year.
Ethiopia has also agreed to not fill the dam with any water from the Nile River until some sort of consensus has been reached between the three countries. The agreement also states that regular meetings will be held to solve other disagreements between the three countries and to respond to all Egyptian concerns regarding the filling of the dam with water.
